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Article #61083 (61123 is last):
From: scholten@epg.nist.gov (Robert Scholten)
Subject: Re: How hot should the cpu be?
Date: Wed Apr 21 19:01:49 1993
The temp on my 486DX2/66 is over 96C (measured with a K-type thermocouple
and Fluke 55 dig thermometer). This is an "idle" temp - not doing lots of
bus i/o, not doing floating point, not doing 32-bit protected mode etc. This
is in a Micron computer, without heatsink.
I recently put a heatsink/fan on the chip, but I might take the fan off. It
makes a horrible whine at times, and I wonder what the vibration is doing to
the pins on the cpu etc...
--
Rob Scholten
scholten@epg.nist.gov
End of File, Press RETURN to quit
Rob,
Don't worry about the whine of the fan it will go away in about 3 weeks
of use, mine did...
As to the vibration well that something I thought about to as I have
a tower case and the mb is mounted vertically. So I mounted the fan
on the case so that it just blows air at the CPU and its heatsink
instead. Work just like a charm, but the realy biggy to think about
is after the whine goes away on the fan. If the fan should stop (burn out)
how would you ever know this before the cpu goes up in smoke. Thats what
you should be thinking about. I have the parts together but have not
had the time to assemble them as yet. But you build a thermistor controlled
circuit that will turn on a pesso speaker and a LED when the temp. goes
above the normal operating range (96c) or there abouts. Cheep to do if
you use Radio Shack junk under $5....Think about that one for a while!
Sam
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I actually saw this movie about three months ago, but it wasn't called
EASY WHEELS. It was something else that escapes me at the moment but
I did rent it from Blockbuster Video and it was a hoot, in the same
class as Plan 9 From Outer Space.
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*Sigh*
Don't know what your roomate is doing but it must be something wrong.
Are there people who enjoy using Windows? Yes. I'll admit to it. Given
a choice between a Mac and Windows I choose Windows every time (to
start another flame thread 9-) ) ....
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#|> #
#|> #Noting that a particular society, in this case the mainland UK,
#|> #has few religously motivated murders, and few murders of *any*
#|> #kind, says very little about whether inter-religion murders elsewhere
#|> #are religiously motivated.
#|>
#|> No, but it allows one to conclude that there is nothing inherent
#|> in all religion (or for that matter, in catholicism and protestantism)
#|> that motivates one to kill.
#
#"Motivates" or "allows?" The Christian Bible says that one may kill
#under certain circumstances. In fact, it instructs one to kill under
#certain circumstances.
I'd say the majority of people have a moral system that instructs them
to kill under certain circumstances. I do get your distinction between
motivate and allow, and I do agree that if a flavour of theism 'allows'
atoricities, then that's an indictment of that theism. But it rather
depends on what the 'certain circumstances' are. When you talk about
Christianity, or Islam, then at least your claims can be understood.
It's when people go to a general statement about theism that it falls
apart. One could believe in a God which instructs one to be utterly
harmless.
#
#|> For my part, I conclude that something
#|> else is required. I also happen to believe that that something
#|> else will work no less well without religion - any easy Them/Us will
#|> do.
#
#And what does religion supply, if not an easy Them/Us?
Not necessarily. "Love thy neighbour" does not supply a them/us - it
demolishes it. And my definition of religion is broader than my
definition of theism, as I have explained.
#
#|> #By insisting that even the murder of four labourers, chosen because
#|> #they were catholics, and who had nothing to do with the IRA, by
#|> #Protestant extremists, is *not* religously motivated, I think what
#|> #you are saying is that you simply will not accept *any* murder as
#|> #being religiously motivated.
#|>
#|> No. What about that guy who cut off someone's head because he believed
#|> he was the devil incarnate? That was religously motivated.
#
#What about the Protestant extremists who killed four Catholic
#labourers? That *wasn't* religiously motivated?
Not in my opinion. If they were doing it because of some obscure
point of theology, then yes. But since all protestants don't do this
(nor do they elect extremists to do it for them), it's just too broad
too say "religion did this". I'm saying that the causes are far more
complex than that - take away the religious element, and you'd still
have the powerful motives of revenge and misguided patriotism. You
know, when most Catholics and Protestants worldwide say 'stop the
killing', one might listen to that, especially when you claim not
to read minds.
#
#
#|> Also, the murders ensuing from the fatwa on Mr. Rushdie, the Inquisitions,
#|> and the many religous wars.
#
#What's so special about these exceptions? Isn't this all just a
#grab-bag of ad-hoc excuses for not considering some other murders
#to be religiously motivated? What's the general principle behind
#all this?
The general principle is that it's fairly clear (to me, at least) that
religion is the primary motivator (enabler, whatever) of these. It's
not nearly so obvious what's going on when one looks at NI, apart
from violence of course.
#
#|> #It's not an abstract "argument". Northern Irish Protestants say
#|> #"We don't want to be absorbed into am officially Catholic country."
#|> #
#|> #Now what are we supposed to do? Are we supposed to reply "No,
#|> #that's only what you think you don't want. Mr O'Dwyer assures us
#|> #that no matter what you say you want, you really want something
#|> #else?"
#|>
#|> You think the Unionists wouldn't mind being absorbed into a non-Catholic
#|> country (other than the UK of course)? It's a terrible thing to lose
#|> a mind. Maybe the word "country" is there for more than just kicks.
#|> I certainly don't believe that the Unionists are in it for God - I think
#|> they wish to maintain their position of privilege.
#
#I'm still listening to what they say, and you are still telling us
#your version of what they think. You read minds, and I don't.
You've speculated on my motives often enough, and you don't take
my statements of my own beliefs at face value - therefore your claim
not to read minds has no credibility with me, sorry. I also note that
you fail to answer my question. It just looks to me very much like
you have an axe to grind - especially as you are indeed ignoring what
most Protestants say - which is @stop the killing". The people you
refer to are properly described as Unionists, not Protestants.
#
#As for their position of privilege, what is that if not religion-
#based?
It is based on politics, bigotry, and heartless extremism. None of these
things are synonymous with religion, though there is certainly some
overlap.
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: I've only had the computer for about 21 months. Is that a reasonable life
: cycle for a LCD display?
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Good point. If you haven't read "The True Believer" by Eric Hoffer, do
so at your first opportunity. I don't know why Hoffer is out of style
now, but "The True Believer" is still the best explanation of nutball
behavior ever written.
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Hmm...are you a Taoist? Imposing limits *does* do something useful...it gives
you something to go beyond.
I tend to be a bit critical of any stratification of Taoism. I especially
tend to frown on any suggestion that "orthodoxy" or "classics" have any
special place in Tao.
So rather than debate what "Taoism *REALLY* means" you are suggesting that
we take someone else's word for it and work thusly? I'd rather not, thank
you.
Whereas you, of course, have a clear idea of what the word means? Can
you tell the Tao? :-)
Wonderful idea.
Only if you choose to define failure in that way. Or to define it at all.
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Woo! So far, we've had the following interpretations of the figure of
the `Whore of Babylon' in Rev 17 & 18:
a) The United States of America
b) MHO dB) which was as a figure of the fallen spiritual powers who
corrupt and oppress human society
c) Historical Jerusalem
d) Historical Rome
Dare I suggest that the passage might be many layered in meaning? How
about * The prophecy reveals God's judgement on the corrupt & idolatrous
state oppressing his chosen people (d) * That God's judgement extends
_especially_ to his once chosen city (c) because, despite that City's
special call, it still rejected God's grace at the decisive time (Rev
11:8? - also isn't Rev19:24 equally suggestive of Rome as Jerusalem?) *
That the USofA is guilty of many of the crimes of Rome/Babylon (a) and
is equally subject to God's judgement * That the Good Book(TM) actually
encompasses _all_ these viewpoints by revealing the corrupting spiritual
powers warring against mankind through the very society that we've
created. (b)
Clever, huh? (<-- Flame here!) No need to argue at all!
I think Mary's view has a lot of sense because there seems to be a
deliberate contrast between Rev 17/18 and Rev 21/22 - the mortal
Jerusalem chosen by God but never (historically) fulfilling its vocation
and the new Jerusalem perfected (outside of history) purely by God's
grace. eg Details like Rev 17:1 `.. who sits on many waters' cf Rev 22
the single stream in the new Jersualem `the river of life flowing from
the throne of God and of the Lamb.'
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I just entered the market for a Radar Detector and am looking for
any & all advice/recommendations/warnings/etc from anyone in
this group.
Email is preferred.
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You Ford vs Chevy people must live in the planet of Detroit or Droid.
Like they say in the airforce, with enough horsepower anything will fly.
I can put a 32valve V-8 with twin Garret-4s on Yugo and get 7.7sec QM.
Thats useless ... Its still a Yugo that will loose any race on a track,
or on the street.
Have you Detroit beings compared the ultra-long-throw stick shifts of
the 5.0 with the 93 MR2 turbo or 93 RX7 (I ll buy it in 6 mos) ?
Or the Torsen differential of the RX7 compared to the Differential of
the 5.0 that sounds in every hairpin turn ?
And bythe way 5.0 and Camaro both have drums on the rear breaks ...
Hello , this is the 90 's ?
Vlasis Theodore
Software Engineer
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If Prof. Denning is afraid of posting here due to personal attacks,
perhaps she should use an anonymous posting service. That is why
they are there, to allow heated debate to occur without the personal
attacks.
Is anon@penet back up yet?
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Hmmm...
A possibility for the software registration conondrum would be to have the
distributor register the copy when the software was sold. The clerk sticks it
in the store PC and asks for the buyers ID. Later, if pirated versions showed up they could be tracked to the original purchaser. In addition copies which were
sent to distributors/stores would have a vendor reg # or serial # in order to
track in store piracy.
Possible additional program security schemes would be:
1. having monthly password changes which necessitate user call in
and registration. (inconvenient)
2. taking dire legal action on anyone caught (expensive)
3. encryption, crc check, self modifying code (limited effectiveness)
4. have an independent watchdog program in the installation/setup config or
memory manager, etc. which would check the main program's crc.
(only as effective as above methods at best.)
5. have the above watchdog circulating as a virus which would trash cracked
copies of the program and/or the offenders hard drive. (risky, and probably
illegal, certainly immoral)
my new ideas aren't terribly feasible to implement as presented, but I thought
if I threw them out people could think of variations that might be effective.
What is the problem with parallel port security keys? I haven't used anything
that had hardware key copy protection schemes, so I don't know what the
drawbacks are. I know the companies that make them claim they're uncrackable,
but I've seen cracks of AutoDesk 3d-studio floating around (I don't have one
so don't ask) and I had heard that it had parralel port keys.
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Most likely reason is that your backup battery is failing - this battery
maintains the contents of the CMOS memory when AC power is turned off, and
if the battery is flakey then the contents of the CMOS will be lost and
the checksum will be wrong (along with most other of the CMOS data). Try
replacing the battery.
If, however, your PC doesn't use a battery but a large capacitor to power
the CMOS, you should check to see if you can replace the capacitor with a
more normal lithium battery. If this isn't possible, make sure you leave
your PC on for a half hour or hour each day; this will keep the capacitor
charged. I'd opt for the battery change, though.
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You shouldn't have ignored the ZyXEL. It can be purchased with a "Mac
bundle", which includes a hardware-handshaking cable and FaxSTF software.
The bundle adds between $35 and $60 to the price of the modem, depending
on the supplier. It is true that the modem has no Mac-specific docs,
but it doesn't require much 'tweaking' (aside from setting &D0 in the
init string, to enable hardware handshaking).
For more information on the ZyXEL, including sources, look at various files
on sumex-aim.stanford.edu, in info-mac/report.
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Oh? What about the precedent in which nuclear weapons information was
published in "The Progressive"? I was under the impression that the
court held that prior restraint could NOT be used. Any lawyers out
there?
--
Perry Metzger pmetzger@shearson.com
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I would appreciate it if someone could volunteer to verify the shots on goal
and save percentage numbers for me, so I can put these stats on the archive
site. Contact me by mail if you want to volunteer.
Here are the team goalie stats as of: Wed Apr 21 09:09:38 CST 1993
These stats include games up to and including the Sunday previous to the date
listed above. They have been verified against what is printed in my newspaper
every Tuesday. They don't print shots and save percentage numbers, so those
are not verified.
If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, let me know.
Randy
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MP = Minutes Played, GA = Goals against,
SO = Shutouts, GAA = Goals against average
W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties
SOG = Shots on Goal, SV = Save Percentage
MP GA SO GAA W L T SOG SV TM Player
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4106 177 7 2.59 41 18 11 1879 0.906 CHI Ed Belfour
996 49 2 2.95 6 7 1 414 0.882 CHI Jim Waite
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5108 230 9 2.70 47 25 12 2296 0.900 CHI
479 18 2 2.25 6 2 0 232 0.922 TOR Daren Puppa
2781 116 2 2.50 25 15 7 1287 0.910 TOR Felix Potvin
1665 87 1 3.14 13 9 4 823 0.894 TOR Grant Fuhr
160 15 0 5.63 0 3 0 91 0.835 TOR Rick Wamsley
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5097 241 5 2.84 44 29 11 2438 0.901 TOR
25 1 0 2.40 0 0 0 10 0.900 BOS Mike Bales
1322 64 1 2.90 9 8 4 596 0.893 BOS John Blue
3194 168 3 3.16 37 14 3 1354 0.876 BOS Andy Moog
542 31 0 3.43 5 4 0 225 0.862 BOS Reggie Lemelin
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5096 268 4 3.16 51 26 7 2190 0.878 BOS
3702 186 4 3.01 43 14 5 1889 0.902 PIT Tom Barrasso
1368 78 0 3.42 13 7 2 691 0.887 PIT Ken Wregget
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5083 268 5 3.16 56 21 7 2582 0.896 PIT
3890 196 1 3.02 29 28 9 2194 0.911 STL Curtis Joseph
1210 74 1 3.67 8 8 2 628 0.882 STL Guy Hebert
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5110 278 2 3.26 36 36 11 2825 0.902 STL
1817 94 1 3.10 18 8 4 858 0.890 VAN Kay Whitmore
3261 184 3 3.39 28 21 5 1620 0.886 VAN Kirk McLean
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5087 278 4 3.28 46 29 9 2449 0.886 VAN
1193 64 0 3.22 13 4 2 522 0.877 DET Vincent Riendeau
3880 210 4 3.25 34 24 7 1898 0.889 DET Tim Cheveldae
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5088 280 4 3.30 47 28 9 2425 0.885 DET
40 1 0 1.50 0 0 0 19 0.947 MTL Frederick Chabot
3595 192 2 3.20 31 25 5 1813 0.894 MTL Patrick Roy
1433 81 1 3.39 17 5 1 686 0.882 MTL Andre Racicot
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5087 280 3 3.30 48 30 6 2522 0.889 MTL
1311 70 1 3.20 14 4 1 629 0.889 CAL Jeff Reese
3732 203 2 3.26 29 26 9 1805 0.888 CAL Mike Vernon
65 5 0 4.62 0 0 1 39 0.872 CAL Andrei Trefilov
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5120 282 3 3.30 43 30 11 2476 0.886 CAL
1 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0 1.000 WAS Byron Dafoe
343 10 2 1.75 3 2 0 162 0.938 WAS Rick Tabaracci
3282 181 1 3.31 27 23 5 1531 0.882 WAS Don Beaupre
1421 83 0 3.50 13 9 2 681 0.878 WAS Jim Hrivnak
20 2 0 6.00 0 0 0 7 0.714 WAS Olaf Kolzig
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5085 286 3 3.37 43 34 7 2391 0.880 WAS
3476 193 3 3.33 26 26 5 1683 0.885 MIN Jon Casey
1596 97 1 3.65 10 12 5 803 0.879 MIN Darcy Wakaluk
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5090 293 4 3.45 36 38 10 2489 0.882 MIN
1429 75 0 3.15 11 10 4 716 0.895 BUF Dominik Hasek
1694 98 0 3.47 11 15 2 903 0.891 BUF Grant Fuhr
1306 78 0 3.58 11 5 4 706 0.890 BUF Daren Puppa
664 41 0 3.70 5 6 0 344 0.881 BUF Tom Draper
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5104 297 0 3.49 38 36 10 2674 0.889 BUF
2655 146 1 3.30 22 20 2 1314 0.889 NYI Glenn Healy
2253 130 0 3.46 17 15 5 1067 0.878 NYI Mark Fitzpatrick
157 10 0 3.82 1 2 0 78 0.872 NYI Danny Lorenz
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5088 297 1 3.50 40 37 7 2470 0.880 NYI
1939 110 0 3.40 18 9 4 947 0.884 QUE Stephane Fiset
2988 172 0 3.45 29 16 5 1525 0.887 QUE Ron Hextall
154 10 0 3.90 0 2 1 66 0.848 QUE Jacques Cloutier
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5101 300 0 3.53 47 27 10 2536 0.882 QUE
2672 151 2 3.39 19 21 3 1322 0.886 NJ Chris Terreri
2389 146 2 3.67 21 16 4 1180 0.876 NJ Craig Billington
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5080 299 4 3.53 40 37 7 2505 0.881 NJ
2757 152 4 3.31 20 18 7 1519 0.900 NYR John Vanbiesbrouck
224 14 0 3.75 1 2 1 116 0.879 NYR Corey Hirsch
2105 134 1 3.82 13 19 3 1184 0.887 NYR Mike Richter
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5108 308 5 3.62 34 39 11 2826 0.891 NYR
2512 143 5 3.42 20 17 6 1329 0.892 PHI Tommy Soderstrom
1769 111 1 3.76 13 11 5 932 0.881 PHI Dominic Roussel
802 59 0 4.41 3 9 0 405 0.854 PHI Stephane Beauregard
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5107 319 6 3.75 36 37 11 2672 0.881 PHI
3855 227 2 3.53 33 26 6 2119 0.893 WIN Bob Essensa
180 13 0 4.33 2 1 0 96 0.865 WIN Jim Hrivnak
959 70 0 4.38 5 10 0 502 0.861 WIN Rick Tabaracci
73 6 0 4.93 0 0 1 34 0.824 WIN Mike O'Neill
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5084 320 2 3.78 40 37 7 2755 0.884 WIN
1591 97 0 3.66 7 19 2 757 0.872 TB Wendell Young
1163 71 0 3.66 8 10 1 573 0.876 TB JC Bergeron
2268 150 1 3.97 8 24 4 1197 0.875 TB Pat Jablonski
45 7 0 9.33 0 1 0 21 0.667 TB David Littman
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5088 332 1 3.92 24 53 7 2557 0.870 TB
3753 240 1 3.84 17 38 6 2069 0.884 EDM Bill Ranford
1338 93 0 4.17 9 12 2 763 0.878 EDM Ron Tugnutt
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5099 337 1 3.97 26 50 8 2836 0.881 EDM
1735 111 0 3.84 15 8 4 987 0.888 LA Robb Stauber
2718 175 2 3.86 18 21 6 1545 0.887 LA Kelly Hrudey
532 35 0 3.95 6 4 0 294 0.881 LA Rick Knickle
98 13 0 7.96 0 2 0 51 0.745 LA David Goverde
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5100 340 2 4.00 39 35 10 2858 0.881 LA
11 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 3 1.000 HAR Corrie D'Alessio
168 9 0 3.21 1 1 1 87 0.897 HAR Mike Lenarduzzi
867 57 0 3.94 5 9 1 499 0.886 HAR Mario Gosselin
2656 184 0 4.16 16 27 3 1470 0.875 HAR Sean Burke
1373 111 0 4.85 4 15 1 784 0.858 HAR Frank Pietrangelo
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5097 369 0 4.34 26 52 6 2851 0.871 HAR
1326 95 0 4.30 2 17 1 743 0.872 OTT Daniel Berthiaume
3388 250 0 4.43 8 46 3 1711 0.854 OTT Peter Sidorkiewicz
90 10 0 6.67 0 2 0 44 0.773 OTT Darrin Madeley
249 30 0 7.23 0 5 0 146 0.795 OTT Steve Weeks
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5074 395 0 4.67 10 70 4 2656 0.851 OTT
2074 142 1 4.11 7 26 0 1250 0.886 SJ Arturs Irbe
60 5 0 5.00 0 1 0 46 0.891 SJ Wade Flaherty
2000 176 0 5.28 2 30 1 1220 0.856 SJ Jeff Hackett
930 86 0 5.55 2 14 1 559 0.846 SJ Brian Hayward
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5077 414 1 4.89 11 71 2 3079 0.866 SJ
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I thought the first thread was hilarious, so here goes another post.
Some more background information on what has happened to my poor batteries.
One year, I left the batteries in the garage. The garage is Unheated.
They were left in their places that they needed to be. One in the riding
lawnmower (what a lux) and one in each motorcycle. The battery in the
riding lawnmower was about 3-4 years old, and one of the cycle batteries
was new, and one was around 5 years old. Upon spring time, I discovered
that all of the batteries were dead, and needed to be recharged. They all
worked properly, except for the older ones, and they had to be replaced
about halfway through the summer. (they had originally been stored
in the garage, and I think I remember my dad charging them in spring)
Last year, I decided to bring them in to the basement, which has two parts.
one is dirt and brick, and the other is concrete. I brought in all three, and
discovered in the spring, (about 15 days ago) that not only were the batteries
dead, but when I put the charger on them, the charger said "HMMMMMMMM" and
the amp-meter read around 1,000,000,000 (In other words, it was pinned)
the internal circut tripped, and I went on to the other batteries. They
were the same.
Realizing that we still had 2 GIGANTIC sailboat batteries, also lead
acid, I decided to put the charger on them. (these had been sitting for around 1 and a half years, on the brick and dirt part) and noticed that they only
needed a small charge, around 2 hours or so on trickle. I tested them
by using them at the local gas station for giving jump starts, and they
worked fine for around 25 of 'em.
This leads me to believe one of several things.
1) I bought really #$%tty batteries last year. (sorta true)
2) the concrete has something to do with the discharge of the
batteries.
3) There was enough moisture to short out the terminals in the
room where the concrete is,
4) The dirt room was able to absorb the moisture in the air
better than concrete.
(BTW, I can almost waterski in the dirt room)
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Brian, have you checked out what your priests told you in the
Bible to see whether they were telling you the truth? Did you know
that according to the Bible, there shouldn't even be such things as
"priests" anymore? Do you know why the preisthood was established in
the Old Testament to begin with and the reasons why after Jesus,
there were no priests--that is until the Roman Catholic Church
300 years later devised the doctrine of transubstantiation by ignoring
the whole concept beyond the book of Hebrews?
You said you analyzed the Bible very closely. I think you are
lying. For if you had, I would think you would have at least
got the doctrine of hell straight.
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Hi. I'm looking for a 3D shark for use in a ray tracing rountine I'm doing.
I'll be using Vivid or POV, but it can be in any format. Are there any
FTP sites with 3D objects or does anyone have a good 3D shark?
Thanks alot!
Chad
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(Susan Clark) asks:
I am not so sure about the celebrated players of the game, but Tod Hartje,
who played for Harvard in college and then went on to play in the AHL
(initially for Moncton and currently for Providence-- thanks to Daryl
Turner for the update!) appeared on David Letterman's show about two
years ago now.
Tod has the distinction of being the first American born player to go
and play in the former Soviet Union. This was arranged by Jets GM Mike
Smith while Tod was playing in Moncton at about the time all those
European players were coming over to North America to play in the NHL.
Tod spent a year playing in Russia and played with or against some of
the Russian players who have just entered the NHL in the last two years.
He wrote a book on his experiences called "Behind the Red Line" (check it
out!) and appeared on the Letterman show to talk about them.
-- Mike
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I'd like to appeal to the net's NT wizards for a bit of advice.
First a general description of the machine as follows:
Motherboard: Utron 33 mhz Opti chipset, 20 meg memory, 256kb cache
(soon I hope to drop a DX2 chip into it)
Fahrenheit 1280 video (1 meg, 1024x768x256)
ProAudio Spectrum 16 sound board
primary disk = Connor CP30174 on a caching IDE controller
secondary disk = Conner CP30174 as slave on same controller
tertiary disk = Fujitsu ??? 650 meg on Superstore ESDI controller
planned future disks include SCSI HD and CD ROM on PAS16 SCSI port
Tape drive is a Colorado Jumbo 250 on the Floppy controller
future tape drive may be a DAT on the SCSI interface.
Other hardware includes modem/fax, serial ports, and a teletext board
(ugly dos software drives the latter)
Applications used include normal windows stuff (excel, word, Quicken
and Turbo Pascal/Windows) but the important stuff is my Audio
work environment which includes Turtle beach Wave for Windows, MCS Stereo,
and other misc stuff for dinking around with audio files. Also I use
Stacker on the primary drive, HP Newwave (for my wife's use, and she
won't let me get rid of it!), and a product called Infinite Disk from
Chili Pepper Software for hierarchical storage management of my seldom
used offline files.
I plan to upgrade to NT, when it becomes a released product. I was stongly
tempted to become a beta user early on, but I don't have time to mess around
with the hassles of beta software. I expect to buy it, tear off the
shrink wrap, and use it without hassle (I know, unrealistic, but I can
hope can't I, after all, I have work to do).
The advice I want concerns the state of NT regarding device drivers, and
hardware specific stuff in general. How smoothly can I expect the
upgrade to go? Can I expect support for all my stuff, or do I
still need to scramble around downloading drivers (PAS?, Orchid?, Colorado?)
from some bbs, etc. What steps should I take to ensure the installation
goes smoothly. Note that I want to nuke dos totally from the system. I'm
allergic to command lines! I plan to run a "pure" NT system. Also, will
NT communicate with the workgroups lan? What about stacker? I currently
have stacker on the first disk drive. Without Stacker, and the Infinite
Disk product, I will have great difficulty fitting everything I have on the
system (It's cramped now).
I realize Stacker will be incompatible with NT, but will there be an NT
version? Or will NT support compression a la Dos 6? I know Infinite Disk
will be incompatible with NT, but will they offer (or does anybody else)
a comparable product for NT and at what cost? (perhaps I need to ask
Chili Pepper that question) I can live without ID if I have to, but I'd
rather not. Will NT run my DOS apps (the teletext board mainly) without
DOS on the system? What do I need to keep around?
Any feedback or advice (including "forget NT" with good reasons) is much
appreciated. My only significant reason for moving to NT is I need a better
multitasking environment than Windows (among other reasons, WAVE locks up
the machine for hours and hours doing DSP processing on large audio files),
and I want better lan support than I now have (Internet access, etc). Maybe
there are better solutions than NT and if so, I would appreciate hearing
about them (OS/2? What's it's status these days?)
Pls respond by email and if there is interest I'll summarize for the net.
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Grant Fuhr has done this to a lot better coaches than Brian Sutter...
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: Arrogance is arrogance. It is not the result of religion, it is the result
: of people knowing or firmly believing in an idea and one's desire to show
: others of one's rightness. I assume that God decided to be judge for our
: sake as much as his own, if we allow him who is kind and merciful be the
: judge, we'll probably be better off than if others judged us or we judged
: ourselves.
I'm not sure I agree with this 100%. I agree that arrogance is not the result
of religion and that God is a far better judge than we are. I also agree if
you mean to say that arrogance shows up in the form of trying to prove one's
superior knowledge, rightness, or holiness over another person's beliefs.
I need to be careful to understand what you mean here so that I do not fall
into the mistake of misrepresenting your views. If I fall down in this area
I hope you will forgive me.
Arrogance is not the result of believing one is right or of believing that
one's God is greater than the god's of others or of believing that one's
religion is better than other religions. These are all naturally self-implied
beliefs.
It is self-contradictory to say that I believe my current beliefs to be wrong.
Were I to find myself in error, my beliefs would naturally change and follow
what I believe to be right. Therefore, I must always consider my beliefs
correct. That's not arrogance. That's unavoidable behavior.
It is nonsense to say that I believe another person's god to be greater than
my God. Were his or her god greater, wouldn't I be obligated to change so
that their god would become my God? We are naturally obligated to worship
that God which we deem to be the greatest. Why should we feel obligated to
worship a second best god for the sake of feeling humble?
Arrogance is not necessarily thinking onesself to be better looking or more
intelligent or stronger or having more resources than another person. No
doubt many will have to chew on this one awhile. Were passive observation
of one's superior points arrogance, then God would be most arrogant of all.
Humility does not rest in slandering or belittling God's work of creation in
our lives. People often go around trying to be humble saying to one another,
"I'm not very smart. I'm poor. I'm not good looking. I'm just a worm in
the ground. I'm such a weak person and although I don't want to sin, I
really cannot help it." Were this person truely humble, he would take a
different approach. "God, thank you for making me the way you did. I know
that you never do anything second best. Yet with all that you have given me,
I have been so unthankful. You've given me power to resist the devil. I
have not used it but have indulged myself in doing exactly what you have said
not to do. I have slandered your creation in my life and have credited myself
with humility for doing so. Lord, with all you've given me, I have been
completely unfaithful and I do not deserve your forgiveness. And, yet Your
love for me is so boundless that you would give Yourself to die for me to
save me. As terribly evil as I am, I deserve to go straight to hell, yet it
pleases you somehow to rescue me from this terrible life I've led. Lord,
please forgive me and help me stay on the right track so that I can bring
glory to Your Name instead of insult. Lord I'm so sorry for my wrongs. Please
help me to change."
:
: I think people take exceptional offense to religious arrogance because
: they don't want to be wrong. If I find someone arrogant, I typically
: don't have anything to do with them.
For me, I've often found it hard to tell the difference. Often times, the
most humble christian has come across to me as arrogant while the most
proud "worm in the ground" false humility type person has been found to be
most comfortable company.
When I'm wrong and arrogant about my wrongness, I certainly don't feel like
being confronted by my wrongness. Were someone to confront me verbally with
my wrongness, I'd be likely to snap at them and examine them head to toe for
all their faults and charge them with hypocricy for what they said to me.
At the root, my desire would be to make them shut up so that I can go about
living my life arrogantly as I wish. However, were someone to confront me
silently by their example, earn my respect, and perhaps mention it to me in
humility in private, I'd feel broken down and challenged to seek God for help
in changing from the error of my ways.
The hard part is getting to the point to where I can be humble before anyone
regardless of their humility or pride--regardless of their hypocricy or
sincerity--regardless of whether onlookers will frown down upon me or not.
It isn't easy to take this pain in love with thankfulness for the opportunity
to improve in one's ability to serve God. It's easier to cast aside any hope
of reaching true humility and merely hide behind slandering God's creation
in our lives instead.
: But we should examine ourselves [I hope I typed this back in right]
: and why we react to certain situations with such emotions. For instance,
: many of us feel "justified" to be insulted by an arrogant person. As if
: we needed a reason to feel insulted. But after being insulted over and
: over again by the words of others, you'd think we'd either toughen up
: or decide not to be insulted, or ignore the insult. Just because you
: can justify feelings of anger or insult or outrage, that doesn't make that
: reaction the appropriate one. It is in this light of self-examination
: that we can change our emotional reactions.
:
Sometimes it helps when we can understand and feel the difference between
what is a true statement of our character and what is a false and slanderous
statement of our character. The devil is the accuser of the bretheren. He
would love us to feel hopelessly guilty where we are innocent and feel arrogant
and self-righteous where we are indeed wrong. The devil's aim is to get us
into as much misery as he can. Just think of the devil as a cruel and merci-
less criminal who torments a parent by burning his or her children with
hot irons. The way the devil gets under the Father's skin is by hurting
those that the Father loves so much.
--
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"I deplore the horrible crime of child murder...
We want prevention, not merely punishment.
We must reach the root of the evil...
It is practiced by those whose inmost souls revolt
from the dreadful deed...
No mater what the motive, love of ease,
or a desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent,
the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed...
but oh! thrice guilty is he who drove her
to the desperation which impelled her to the crime."
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Well, there are several bursts in species diversity I can think of.
The Cambrian and Ordovician explosions resulted in a vast increase
in animal diversity. Likewise, after the one-two punch of the
Permian and Triassic extinctions, the number of marine animals
rose steadily (**) to an all-time high (*) just prior to the spread
of humans.
(**) biggest exception being the K/T (bye bye dinos) extinction
(*) about 800 families
Also, plants arose from green algae and colonized the land in
succesive sweeps. Mosses colonized very wet environments first,
ferns (who had evolved vascular tissues) took over more territory
when they evolved (1). These were eventually (mostly) replaced by gymnosperms
(pines and the like) (2) and then (mostly) displaced by angiosperms (flowering
plants -- now the dominant plant group on the planet(3). Fungi
also radiated greatly with the invasion of the land.
(1) around the carboniferous (up to about 200 families)
(2) around the triassic (up to maybe 250 families)
(3) starting in the cretaceous (rising to about 600 families currently)
It's unclear (to me at least) what the max equilibrium number
of species the earth can hold (***) and if it has ever hit this
in the past. It could be (warning: speculation alert) that
diversity has never reached a peak because mass extinctions
happen often enough to keep the total number down.
(***) This would depend a great deal on how fragmented
specific ecosystems were.
See Cowen's book "History of Life" for a not-too-technical
run-down on, well, like the title sez, the history of life.
Or see, Wilson's "Diversity of Life" for a view centered more
on current ecology -- this is (IMHO) the best popular biology
book of (what the hell, I'll say it) all time.
Follow-ups to t.o.
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It seems you lived a fairly 'wild life'-- my background is far more
traditional, mostly working, working, working. Maybe there's a clear
indication that the way you lived your life produced a certain
amount of anxiety that needed to be released. Religion was one
possible medicine. While my more stable environment didn't and
still does not produce the situation where I feel such guilt.
This is just one possible explanation why you feel this burden,
while I haven't felt it so far.
Regards,
Kent
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Let's not forget Al Michaels, of "Do you believe in miracles?" fame.
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Maybe I should have been clearer. I have a Intel 386DX/25 that I would
like to use to put together a system however all the motherboards that
the local vendors are now selling are running either at 33 or 40 MHz. I
guess I can cross my fingers and hope the CPU runs at that speed. ;^)
I think I'll take Mark's advice and see if any of the boards have
a socketed oscillator and head down to the local electronics store...
Thanks for the info...
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The *real* way to speed up ballgames is for each home park owner to offer the
following schedule of bonuses to players on *both* teams:
For all players who participated in the game, offer $500 for each 10
minutes less than 3 hours the game took (i.e. if the game only took 2.5
hours, each player gets a bonus of $1500).
For all pitchers throwing 3 or more full innings in the game, extrapolate
the number of pitches or attempted pickoffs to the number they would have
thrown in a full 9 innings, and offer $500 for each number less than 120.
(If the pitcher throws a complete game with 100 pitches and 5 throws to
first he would get $7500).
I suspect you could finance this the same way Presidential campaigns are
paid for. Offer each fan a checkoff on his or her ticket that says "I want
5% of the price of this ticket to go towards fast game bonuses"...
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You are somewhat close to truth. But you shouldn't forget that
nationality is a recent invention of the western europe. In the
days of the Ottoman empire, the religion was the main point of
difference between social classes. The Ottomans didn't recognize
Turks, Arabs, Greeks, Serbs... Just christians, muslims, jews...
So, for all the interested parties in the Ottoman society the
bosnian muslims were "Turks". After all, there aren't many "real"
(ethnic) Turks living even in Turkey today. Even in Europe, it's
the culture that defines the ethnicity and religion is part of
one's culture.
Can you support this?
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I cured mine with Bag Balm which I bought at the local farm
supply store. It is relatively cheap and works in a few days.
The product was developed to treat sore udders.
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Uh, Bill James doesn't sell statistics. He sells books with statistics,
but he is not in the business of providing stats like Elias, STATS,
Howe, Baseball workshop etc. are.
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Another F2 rider had similiar problems, and this is the mail I sent him,
hope this helps resolve you problem!
AT
Good point, did not catch this in the original post. The only other things
which come to mind, since this is a gravity feed fuel system, is this.
The fuel petcock valve is vacuum controlled from the #1 carburator. Let
suppose there is a small hole or bad seal either in the hose itself or the
vacuum valve in the fuel petcock. When it is cold, the hole is open enough
to open the valve just enough to allow gas to the carbs with the choke on,
since the choke creates more low pressure in the carbs when on to draw gas,
and as the engine and surrounding area warm up, the hole seals up.
One way to check fuel flow through the valve would be to pull the side
panels off and remove the fuel hose to the carbs. Connect a tube of the
correct size, preferably clear tubing to observe fuel flow, on the output
side of the fuel petcock. Remove the control hose from #1 carburator. Make
sure the tank is full. Place the valve in the ON position and apply vacuum
to the control hose, preferably with a vacuum device with a gauge, to check
for air leaks. With vacuum applied, fuel should flow freely. To see if there is
a vent problem, do this with the fuel filler cap open and closed, if it
flows a lot faster with the filler cap open, then there may be something in
the vent airway which changes position and depending on the position may clog
or partially clog the vent. I have heard of some F2 fuel tanks being replaced
to fix this problem. So the things which might be defective are, the control
hose from #1 carb, the petcock valve, and possibly the fuel tank vent.
Now if all of the above shows no problem of fuel flow when cold, then there
is something in the carbs screwed up, but there are so many things to check,
I would be typing all day to list them all!
Here are a few, with everything back together, apply vacuum to the petcock valve
and open the drain holes on the carbs one by one to check fuel flow. Open up the
airbox and check for foreign debris or clogged airways on the carbs, there are
quite a few on each carb.
I hope something is flushed out with all this trouble shooting. If American
Honda does not resolve this, get MAD AS HELL and report them to the BBB and
call the Honda Customer Service HOTLINE. It is a 800 number, but I don't recall
it off the top of my head. I called just about tires for my F2 and a few days
later a customer satisfaction inquiry card arrived at home asking how I liked
the support I received, here would be your chance to tell them what you think!
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Please tell me where I can get a CD on the Wergo Music label for less
than $20.
foolishly,
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Damned if you do and Damned if you don't!
Just for the record, Egyptian troops were one of the first to be
stationed there. I can't remember the exact date but it was late last
year. In fact, they lost at least one man there as far as I know.
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Can anyone provide me a ftp site where I can obtain a online version
of the Book of Mormon. Please email the internet address if possible.
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Stupid question from a new IBM PC user:
I'm going to be selling my Mac and getting a Gateway 2000.
What is the difference between IDE HD and SCSI HD?
The GW 486DX-33V comes with a 250MB Western Digital IDE drive.
I asked how much more for the Seagate 500MB SCSI drive.
The guy asked me "Why are you going with SCSI?". I was lost for an answer.
I just said "I know Seagate better as a company, from a satisfaction point
of view".
Are SCSI drives faster than IDE? I'm not buying my GW for another 4 months
or so, but this is a question that has bugged me for a while.
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21 Apr 1993 egreen@east.sun.com (Ed Green - Pixel Cruncher) Writes:
-->}Sheesh, even a trained attack dog is no match for a human,
-->}we have *all* the advantages.
-->
-->I agree with this 100%.
--
--Me, too... for chihuahua's. The police and the military don't train
--dobermans and shephards and use them as weapons because they are so
--easy for the average Joe to defeat barehanded. You may have opposing
--thumbs, but the dog has teeth so effective some of yours are named for
--him. He has IR vision, better hearing and better smell than you do,
--and most likely faster reflexes.
--
--You're on a motorcycle, he's on paws. Roll on and blow him off. He
--doesn't even have net access.
--
--
--Ed Green
C'mon Ed.........
a) All things have their weak areas
b) What's IR....Idiot Response......Dogs have more Rods or Cones (I'm not sure
which?) than humans and this allows their eyes to collect more light in lower
light conditions. Consequently their colour vision is almost non-existant. I
mean, if dogs had built in infra-red vision, the armed forces would be
strapping them to missiles instead of paying a quarter million for IR guidance
capabilities.
c) My dog has net access ! !
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WANTED - 4 256K 60ns SIPS
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I've got an old Super VGA card manufactured by SAMPO of Taiwan and I'm
looking for a Windows 3.1 Driver for it. It's based on the Cirrus Logic
CL-GD510A-32PC-B chip. I've contacted the suppliers here in New Zealand
and they say that only Windows 2 divers were ever written by the manufacturer.
So if there's a V3.1 driver out for this chip set I'd like to know -
preferably by e-mail at rjwjames@waikato.ac.nz
Thanks is advance
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Does anybody know where I can get a copy of System 6.0.8L. It is a modified
version of System 6 that will work on the newer Mac models.
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From: db7n+@andrew.cmu.edu (D. Andrew Byler)
1] An english translation of this can be found in:
"The Acts of the Apostles, translated from the Codex Bezae, with an
introduction on its Lucan Origin and Importance", J. M. Wilson
(London, 1923).
2] Another work that might be useful is:
"The Acts of the Apostles, a Critical Edition with Introduction and
Notes on Selected Passages", Albert C. Clark (Oxford, 1933;
reprinted 1970).
(This is an edition of text of Acts that makes the assumption that the
text in Codex Bezae is the more authentic. I don't know if it
actually contains an english translation or not.)
3] Another useful that discusses many of the variants in detail is:
"The Theological Tendency of the Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis in
Acts", Eldon J Epp (Cambridge, 1966).
4] The most recent reference I found was an edition in French from the
early '80s. (I can supply the reference if anyone's interested.)
5] Now, many of the works are going to be difficult to find. So if
you're interested in examining the differences in the long recension
an excellent (and easily obtainable) discussion can be found in:
"A Textual Commentary on the Greek NT", Bruce Metzger (United Bible
Society, 1971).
Metzger's book serves as a companion volume to the UBS 3rd edition of
the Greek NT. It contains a discussion on the reasoning that went
behind the decisions on each of the 1440 variant readings included in
the UBS3. Furthermore, notes on an addition 600 readings are
included in aTCotGNT (the majority of these occur in Acts).
"[An attempt was made] to set before the reader a more or less full
report (with an English translation) of the several additions and
other modifications that are attested by Western witnesses ...
Since many of these have no corresponding apparatus in the
text-volume, care was taken to supply an adequate conspectus of the
evidence that supports the divergent readings." (p 272).
6] Most of the copies of the text of Acts that we have (including the
ones in Vaticanus and Siniaticus) adher pretty closely to the shorter
(or Alexandrian) version. The longer version to which you refer is
usually called the "Western" version and its main witness is the Codex
Bezae (althought there are a few other rather fragmentary sources).
7] As far as size, the difference is that in Clark's edition
(mentioned above) the book of Acts contains 19,983 words whereas the
text edited by Westcott and Hort (a typical Alexandrian text) contains
18,401 words; i.e. a difference of about 8-1/2%.
8] To answer the obvious questions, no, there are no major revelations
in the longer text nor major omissions in the shorter text. The main
difference seems to "expansion" of detail in the Western text (or, if
you prefer "contractions" in the Alexandrian). The Western text seems
to be given to more detail. There are some interesting specific
cases, but this probably not the place to go into it in detail.
9] The discussion over the years as to which of these versions is the
more authentic has been hot and heavy. If there is anything
approaching a modern consensus it is (i) that neither text represents
purely the "authentic" version, (ii) each variant reading has to be
examined on its own merits however, (iii) the variant in the
Alexandrian text is the "better" more often than not.
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Hei Pei.
I can not help you directly width you problem, but there may be
intermediate roads to take to get to the IFF. I am using a converter
that can take IGES, IIF, DXF -> IGES, MILESPEC I IGES, MILESPEC II IGES,
IIF, MILESPEC I IIF, MILESPEC II IIF and DXF.
IIF is IBM IGES FORMAT. There may be converters out there that can handle
IGES to IFF. Hope this was to any help. By the way the converter is part
of the IGES Processor/6000 package from IBM and it runs on RS/6000 AIX.
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Big hook-end chain and 4" web ratchet tiedown negotiable
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You are stuck in a distributed system feedback loop! What if you are on an
Xterminal or running xterm over the net to another machine? That is when the
load problems occur. If you had a machine with 20 Xterminals attached and
they all had blinking cursors in xterm's, this could represent a considerable
ethernet bandwidth waste.
I'm not picking on you, just people keep forgetting that there is a lot of life
out there besides distributed or singleuser "Workstations"!
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You can't call time when there's a play in progress.
Ryan Robbins
Penobscot Hall
University of Maine
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+>Critisism is too easy. What solutions do people have that would have been
+>better than what the FBI had been doing for the last few months?
After the seige began:
Surround the place with Razor wire and then let them sit. Do not
have daily press conferences, do your best to keep things out of
the press.
As things get more and more miserable inside, one of two things is
going to happen:
1. People will start coming out.
2. They will commit suicide in mass at some point.
The thing to remember about (2) is that hysterical situations and "assults"
play into the hands of a "leader" who has picked this course. Its
much easier to stampede people into something like suicide if there
is gas coming in and bullets in the air. Let them be hungry and miserable
for longer and longer and it will probably be more effective.
The "possiblity" that they would all kill themselves at some
point would not bother me in the least or alter tactics. If people
are going to take their own lives, the best you can probably do is
prevent yourself from giving them the opportunity or an excuse to
do it.
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I appeal to to all of you to show up in Washington DC. this saturday to
participate in a peaceful demonstration for the sake of humanity!! This is a
critical point in the history of world and we can make a change otherwise things
will not change there in Bosnia.. Rapes/killings/ethnic cleansing will
go on as a norm in the days to follow. The UN will get to the towns after the fall
of thousands of inocent civilians (like in Zapa just the past weekend!). It happened
to the Jews in 1940's, it's happening to the muslims today and who will be the next
victim??
Since the Europeans want to remain indifferent in this issue, time has come for US to
take a leadership role to stop these crimes against humanity. Time is now and
this is for real folks, the people of New England Bosnian Relief Committee seriously believe
that Clinton's Adminstration will stop supporting the Bosnian cause without sustained
public pressure. I just called Democaratic Sen. John Kerry's office and they are saying that
he (the senator) is waiting for president to take a decision, means that he will wait and
join the band-wagon later if it ever moves!
Please don't rely on others to take part in this demonstration -You as an individual
will make a big difference. Bring your families too, not only you will help a great
cause but also it will be fun for all. I know of several families from Massachusetts
who are travelling friday night to participate there. Contact the local Islamic center
or Bosnia relief agency if you want to travel by pre-arranged busses. The best option
for students is to rent-a-car and car-pool. Please, spread the word around...
Regards,
Khalid Chishti
If you live in Massachusetts and want more info:
Call Ginan (from New England Bosnian Relief Committee): 617-623-1973
OR
New England Bosnian Relief Committee phone no: (617) 464-0111
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Hi,
I have the following problem: I have to use a computer for special purposes
that doesn't have a monitor and keyboard connected. No monitor isn't a
program - but no keyboard.
I can't disable the keyboard from BIOS setup (in fact, there is no setup).
I spoke to someone who said that he had fooled the BIOS with simply
using a self-made connector that connects two pins via a resistor.
Pity, pity... I lost contact to the person before getting more detail.
So does anyone of you experts can help?
Thanks for any hints, even vague ones :-)
Thomas
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Depends on the FDC but generally No. The drive at the end after the twist
should be set as Drive 0
Since you're using the 5.25 as drive A: it should be at the end after the
twist with the resistor pack fitted.
Yes
Hope this helps. I had exactly the same problems. Unfortunately when
I changed to different machine the problems started again because
of a different FDC. Seems (don't flame me, this is mainly guess work
from practicle experience) that some FDC's do different things with the
select.
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A few weeks ago I saw an ad in the German magazine c't
about a so-called Videostreamer. This is an interface
between a PC's parallel port and any video-recorder for
backing up your data on a videotape. The company (DataSave?)
claims that it can store up to 7 GB on a 300 minutes tape.
^^^^^^^^^^
It costs DM 250.- (about USD 200, I think)
My question is:
Does anybody use this product, if yes, how many bytes
REALLY fit on a 300 minutes tape (7 GB sounds quite
unbelievable to me).
However, any comments on the interface are appreciated.
Please mail your replies directly to me, I will sum up
if neccesary. Thanks in advance...
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Does anyone belong to or know any facts about the
Christian Reformed Church?
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Yeah, People act really shocked about violence, as though it were new
to our species...
What about the holocaust? The crusades? The Salem witch trials? The
religious persecutions of the middle-ages?
What about violent acts carried out in the name of religion all over
the world? What about the early Christians put to death by the Romans?
The Jews persecuted by Christians?
There are a lot more humans today than there have ever been. I do not
know the stats, but there are far more people on the planet than there
were 2 or 3 hundred years ago! The per capita acts of violence are
probably not significantly different than they were a hundred or a
thousand years ago!
There is nothing new about violence.
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Well, suppose your mother was a crack addict and crack user/abuser while
she was pregnant? Suppose your husband gave you some SDT (this recently
happened to a close friend of my wife and mine)?
OFTEN, the consequences of our sin are at least partially inflicted on
innocent people. Several times in the OT, this is pointed out, even
saying that descendants would suffer consequences for a person's sin
for several generations. Even today, we see multi-generational (to
coin a phrase) effects from alcoholism, child abuse, and spousal
abuse just to name three.
So, God's definition of fair and ours differ.
Some points of perspective:
Though the predisposition towards sinning is now inbred (see Webster's
first definition of inbred) thanks to Adam, it is arrogant and foolish
for any of us to think we would have done any different if we were in
their shoes. I know myself pretty well, and I'm just not that good. Take
God's word for it, neither are you. "There is no one righteous..."
More important, when a person decides to be a disciple of Jesus, God
promises supernatural help in overcoming our physical self's sinful
tendency. We can, of course, choose to ignore this help. (Rom 7,8)
"...God made mankind upright, but men have gone in search of many
schemes." -Eccl
Mark
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hartzman@kilroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Les Hartzman) writes...
Les,
I am right now working on an MPR-II certified (Swedish standards for
low emissions) Hitachi Superscan 15 monitor. It's 1024x768, up to 72hz at
that res, and it got a good write-up for image quality in a recent (Feb.?)
issue of PC Magazine. As far as I know, very little fully matches a NEC in
image quality (at least according to the mags -- I can't tell any
difference between the two!), but I think NEC is low emissions on only one
of the two types. There's VLF (Very Low Frequency) and ELF (I think that's
Extremely Low Frequency). The MPR-II standards set strict limits on both.
But many comapnies, NEC included according to one article I read (I get a
bunch of mags so it's hard for me to remember which!), which claim "low
emissions" but not specifically "MPR-II Compliant" or "MPR-II Certified"
only control for one, usually VLF, and ignore the other.
So, the NEC probably has higher overall image quality (I consis-
tently hear it rated as the best or close to the best), but not as low
emissions as the Hitachi. I like my image quality, but for all I know you
may be more discerning. Good luck!
- Mitch
v063kcbp@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
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Due it seems to Sun's crapulous organisation of the X libraries and includes,
most standard (GNU and other) software won't compile out of the box (well, tar
file).
Right now I'm trying to make ghostview. It complains it can't find X11/XaW/...
so I just linked (ln -s) the files from /usr/openwin/share/include/X11 and
now the ghoddam thing _still_ complains it can't find them.
I still haven't been able to compile xdvi, not no way.
Has anyone _ever_ managed to get _anything_ normal to compile on a Sun
(SunOS 4.1.3 and OpenWindows 3)? What's the trick I'm missing? I've even
tried hard copying all the relevant files into the "right" places and
every time, there's some bit missing or it refuses to find it.
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The Catholic doctrine of predestination does not exclude free
will in any way. Since God knows everything, He therefore knows
everything that is going to happen to us. We have free will, and
are able to change what happens to us. However, since God knows
everything, He knows all the choices we will make "in advance" (God
is not subject to time). Too often arguments pit predestination
against free will. We believe in both.
That last sentence of Steve's is an important one to remember.
There are certain things in the Catholic religion that cannot be
completely comprehended by a human being. Were this not the case, it
would be good evidence that the religion was man-made.
In the case of predestination, you have to reconcile two things that
would at first appear to be irreconcilable: the sovereignty of God's
will over all things, and man's free will in deciding his own fate.
Catholics believe in both! But that doesn't mean that anyone has come
up with a pat reconciliation...
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I have some more 35mm slide projectors for sale regardless for my first post.
All with new light bulb, no lens, no remote controller.
All inperfect working condition.
1. Kodak Carousel 800 non-AF
$60
2. Kodak carousel 760H autofocus
$85
3. Singer Caramate II, w/built-in lens, casette player non-AF
$40
4. Singer Caramate SP, w/built-in lens, casette player non-AF
$45
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I have uploaded the most recent Windows drivers for the Cirrus GD5426
chip based display cards to the uploads directory at ftp.cica.indiana.edu
(file is 5426dr13.zip). They're very recent, I downloaded them from the
Cirrus BBS (570-226-2365) last night. If you are unable to get them there,
email me and maybe I can upload them to some other sites as well.
I have a local bus based card (VL24 Bitblaster from Micron) but I think
the drivers work with ISA cards (or at least includes drivers for them).
I found the new drivers to be a significant improvement over the 1.2 version,
improving my graphic winmarks (v3.11) by about 2 million (7.77 to 9.88)
although this could be the result of intentional benchmark cheating on
Cirrus's part but I don't think so.
From Steve Gibson's (columnist for Info World) graphic card comparisons
(also found at the cica ftp site under the name winadv.zip) I extracted the
following for the sake of comparison:
Wintach
Winbn3.11 Word Sprsht Cad Paint Overall
Steve's system:
486/33 VLB:
ATI Graphics Ultra Pro 9.33 10.34 20.78 8.28 14.90 13.58
my system -
486sx/33 VLB:
VL24 Bitblaster 9.88 8.65 11.71 18.84 15.40 13.65
Its no Viper, but I think its a hell of a deal at about a third of the cost of
the ATI card and when compared to the other cards included in Gibson's review.
Micron system owner's, I would be interested to hear your opinions on the
DTC 2270VL local bus disk controller. My system came with a Maxtor 7120
drive (120 MB) and at first was only giving me disk winmarks of about 16 Kb/s,
I am now at 22 Kb/s. Is this about as good as it gets? I can't get a Norton's
sysinfo disk reading because the contoller intercepts the calls, at
least that was what the program said.
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Well, lets for a hypothetical put our selves in the place of the US end
of the drug rings. What do we do about the Cripple chip? First off, we
would express disaproval to our congress critters, and remind them of the
large sums of money our legitimate co.s provide to their campain coffers. We
would also let them know via the 'other' channels that a) their income is about
to take a hit, and b) their health may not be too good either.
But just in case, the next obvious step to take is to BUY Mycotoxic and VLSI!
Yeah, free enterprise at work. :-) Now they have the Cripple in their pockets,
literaly as well as figurativly. Tough about the masses though.
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F O R S A L E
================
Triumph Spitfire '76, 1500
- Convertible
- 54,000k original miles
- Burgandy Color
- Wooden Dashboard
- No rust
- Garage kept
- Heater
- Chrome bumpers(not the black plastic crap)
- Brand new top
- Asking $3,000 --negotiable
* Mechanically the car is in a very good shape and it is running
very-very strong(if you know what I mean)...:)
* Plenty of catalogs and manuals are coming with the car
If you are interested in the car please reply to this message.
I AM NOT INTERESTED OR WILLING TO SELL ANY PARTS.
The car is in a very good condition to strip it.
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Does anyone know of any free X-servers for PCs, preferably that run under
MS Windows? THANKS.
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Don't be so vague. Let us reexamine it - shall we?
Here you descend into total inanity. Your inability to distinguish
between 'the cold-blooded genocide of Muslim people by the Armenians'
and 'the Armenian war' is incredible. Now, please provide us with your
corrections.
Source: Stanford J. Shaw, on Armenian collaboration with invading Russian
armies in 1914, "History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey (Volume
II: Reform, Revolution & Republic: The Rise of Modern Turkey, 1808-1975)."
(London, Cambridge University Press 1977). pp. 315-316.
"In April 1915 Dashnaks from Russian Armenia organized a revolt in the city
of Van, whose 33,789 Armenians comprised 42.3 percent of the population,
closest to an Armenian majority of any city in the Empire...Leaving Erivan
on April 28, 1915, Armenian volunteers reached Van on May 14 and organized
and carried out a general slaughter of the local Muslim population during
the next two days."
"Knowing their numbers would never justify their territorial ambitions,
Armenians looked to Russia and Europe for the fulfillment of their aims.
Armenian treachery in this regard culminated at the beginning of the First
World War with the decision of the revolutionary organizations to refuse
to serve their state, the Ottoman Empire, and to assist instead other
invading Russian armies. Their hope was their participation in the Russian
success would be rewarded with an independent Armenian state carved out of
Ottoman territories. Armenian political leaders, army officers, and common
soldiers began deserting in droves."
"With the Russian invasion of eastern Anatolia in 1914 at the beginning of
World War I, the degree of Armenian collaboration with the Ottoman's enemy
increased drastically. Ottoman supply lines were cut by guerilla attacks,
Armenian revolutionaries armed Armenian civil populations, who in turn
massacred the Muslim population of the province of Van in anticipation of
expected arrival of the invading Russian armies."
"...Meanwhile, Czar Nicholas II himself came to the Caucasus to make final
plans for cooperation with the Armenians against the Ottomans, with the
president of the Armenian National Bureau in Tiflis declaring in response:
'From all countries Armenians are hurrying to enter the ranks of the
glorious Russian Army, with their blood to serve the victory of Russian
arms...Let the Russian flag wave freely over the Dardanelles and the
Bosporus. Let, with Your will, great Majesty, the peoples remaining
under the Turkish yoke receive freedom. Let the Armenian people of Turkey
who have suffered for the faith of Christ receive resurrection for a new
free life under the protection of Russia.'[155]
Armenians again flooded into the czarist armies. Preparations were made
to strike the Ottomans from the rear, and the czar returned to St. Petersburg
confident that the day finally had come for him to reach Istanbul."
[155] Horizon, Tiflis, November 30, 1914, quoted by Hovannisian, "Road to
Independence," p. 45; FO 2485, 2484/46942, 22083.
"Ottoman morale and military position in the east were seriously hurt, and
the way was prepared for a new Russian push into eastern Anatolia, to be
accompanied by an open Armenian revolt against the sultan.[156]"
[156] Hovannisian, "Road to Independence," pp. 45-47; Bayur, III/1,
pp. 349-380; W.E.D. Allen and P. Muratoff, "Caucasian Battlefields,"
Cambridge, 1953, pp. 251-277; Ali Ihsan Sabis, "Harb Hahralaram," 2 vols.,
Ankara, 1951, II, 41-160; FO 2146 no. 70404; FO 2485; FO 2484, nos.
46942 and 22083.
"An Armenian state was organized at Van under Russian protection, and it
appeared that with the Muslim natives dead or driven away, it might be
able to maintain itself at one of the oldest centers of ancient Armenian
civilization. An Armenian legion was organized 'to expel the Turks from
the entire southern shore of the lake in preparation for a concerted
Russian drive into the Bitlis vilayet.'[162] Thousands of Armenians from
Mus and other major centers in the east began to flood into the new
Armenian state...By mid-July there were as many as 250,000 Armenians
crowded into the Van area, which before the crisis had housed and fed
no more than 50,000 people, Muslim and non-Muslim alike.[163]"
[162] Hovannisian, "Road to Independence," p. 56; FOP 2488, nos. 127223 and
58350.
[163] BVA, Meclis-i Vukela Mazbatalari, debates of August 15-17, 1915;
Babi-i Ali Evrak Odasi, no. 175, 321, "Van Ihtilali ve Katl-i Ami,"
Zilkade 1333/10 September 1915.
I went through this just a few weeks ago; here it comes again. The
entire Turkish population of Armenia (which Armenians called Tartars)
constituted at least about 40% of the total population of Armenia
was deliberately exterminated. (For the population statistics, please
look to the book of Richard Hovannessian, "Armenia on the Road to
Independence.") I listed three books earlier of such a monstrous crime
by the writings of one Armenian, one American, and one British. They
are: "Men Are Like That" by Leonard R. Hartill; "Adventures in the Near
East" by A. Rawlinson; "World Alive, A Personal Story" by Robert Dunn.
Also, I personally have copies of documents of this crime by the writings
of two Armenians and also one American. The official British report about
this massacre mentioned in one of these documents (Lord Curzon-Aharonin
interview) is the report of the British High Commissioner to Caucasia,
Sir Oliver Wardrop.
"An appropriate analogy with the Jewish Holocaust might be the
systematic extermination of the entire Muslim population of
the independent republic of Armenia which consisted of at
least 30-40 percent of the population of that republic. The
memoirs of an Armenian army officer who participated in and
eye-witnessed these atrocities was published in the U.S. in
1926 with the title 'Men Are Like That.' Other references abound."
(Rachel A. Bortnick - The Jewish Times - June 21, 1990)
Need I go on?
Serdar Argic
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I am currently searching for old video tapes of music groups of the early
80's to the late 80's. At first I requested VHS formats, but now i'm accepting
either VHS, 8MM, OR BETA. The type of format i'm interested in are the
type that most nite clubs or trendy clothing stores play. If you do have any
of these tapes just send me a reply with a few groups listed, i'll reply back
if the groups listed are the type i'm searching for. I'll gladly pay you what
they are worth or trade for other movie or music videos, thanks.
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Sorry Charlie...
I have a dozen, VERY blue LED's on my bench right now. They have
a clear plastic case and when lit, are absolutely BLUE. The hue
is sort of a "summer day cloudless sky blue" but make no mistake,
they are blue.
You can buy them from Digikey, Circuit Specialist, Jameco (I think),
LED-Tronics, Stanley Optoelectronics, and others. The current price
is around $2.50 each for small quantities. I will also be selling
them through my mail-order company in the near future (4 weeks).
Write for details if interested.
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:Read the xterm's manual pages for more informations about the avaliable
:actions of xterm. Read the FAQ and get a good book on customizing your
:X applications.
Okay, I will byte. Could someone provide more info on a 'good book on
customizing your X applicaitons'? I am in search of one which does NOT
expect the reader to have the X11 source code memorized (or even available
online!)
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Sorry all the personal replies I sent about help with UnlockFolder
got
eaten by my mail program (my fault), so I'd like to thank everyone
who sent me info!
Kristen Lepa
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: Nothing, but if you read my WHOLE suggestion, I'm saying that you register
: via MAIL by mailing in your registration card, THEN the company send you
: the patch which includes the info you put on the registration card.
The problem with this scheme, is that when I buy a game, I want to play it
*THAT* day...mailing a card to and from California would probably take a week
or more.
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qpalo@digi.lonestar.org (Gerry Palo)
For my money the primary danger of anti-cult groups is that they are
every bit as wacky as the groups they oppose and that by and large
they have no compunctions about printing lies, half-truths and
misleading innuendos as part of their exposes. A recent book on
cults I picked up by a "Christian" author quite simply mixed in
all non-Christian religions (except the Jews) and various New Age
groups with various fringe groups of dubious intent and legality.
Given the record of American Christianity, any group that falls
into the category of fundamentalist or born-again is automatically
into the Inquisition business. It is an unavoidable affliction
of those who have a proprietary license on The Truth (tm).
And let's not forget that Jonestown and the Branch Davidians are
just as much a part of the Christian tradition as the Missouri Synod
Lutherans, and may in fact be the Massadas of true Christian believers.
I am far more concerned about the encroachment of overtly Christian
indoctrination into public schools than I am about yoga classes there.
For those concerned with religious freedom without a selective
inquisitiorial bent:
People for the American Way
P.O. Box 96200
Washington, DC 20077-7500
Americans United for Separation of Church & State
8120 Fenton Street
Silver Spring, MD 20910-9978
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Protestants love to play up Jerome for all he is worth. They should
remeber that after the Decree of Pope St. Damsus I, Jerome did not
hesitate in accpeting the deuteroncanon, and quoted them as Scripture in
his later writings. And as I have already pointed out, in a previous
letter on this subject, the Catholic Church has accepted the
deuterocanon from the beginning. And the Protestants in the 1500's all
of a sudden revived the old theory of some, condemned by Pope, Council,
and Church, that the deuterocanon were not inspired.
Again, why must the Church of Jesus Christ adopt the canon of the
unbelieving Jews, drawn up in Jamnia in 90 AD, in countering the
Christian use of the Septuagint. ^^^^^
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Sorry to be contradictory, but... I've had my Nighthawk at 45 degress
with the horizon and I wasn't banked over in a turn...
The hard part is getting the front in off the ground. I rev to about
7,000 at DROP the clutch. Even harder is keeping it from coming up to far--
I use the back brake as well as the throttle. Once its up, it'll wheelie just
like any other bike.
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Hi Netters,
Having inherited a Solbourne (S-4000 : Sun 4 Compatible), I was wondering
if somebody has ported X11R5 to this beast. Since Solbournce Computer Inc. folded
up I don't know where I can get the kernel to move from R4. Since they never
joined the MIT Consortium, the regular distribution doesn't work. Any pointers
will be highly appreciated.
Julian
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I am looking for an available program that would convert gif
files to other formats usable on DOS-based software such
as WordPerfect Presentations (which will handle .wpg and .tiff,
among others).
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you very much for
your time and help.
Steve
alford@novavax.nova.edu
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Anybody know where I can get Graphics Work Shop?
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: What exactly does the windows bitmap format look like? I mean, how is
: the data stored: width, height, no. of colours, bitmap data? I couldn't
: find anything in ths user manual, is there any other reference material
: which would give me this information?
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I've been thinking about how difficult it would be to make PGP available
in some form on EBCDIC machines. The message authentication would be ugly,
but I think at least the IDEA encryption could work, if PGP had a switch
to tell it to use IDEA in OFB-mode or ECB-mode. In OFB-mode, errors in
translating EBCDIC-->ASCII-->EBCDIC would only affect their byte, not the
16 bytes that would be affected under CBC.
Is PGP set up to use different IDEA modes? I don't recall notincing it
in the executable, but I haven't gone through it as carefully as I probably
should....
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I was wondering if anyone knows of a graphics package for the PC that
will do compositing of a series of pictures?
What I mean by "compositing" is, say I have a live video clip
(digitized) panning around a living room, and a computer-generated
bird flying around the screen. I want to combine these two series of
pictures so that everywhere where the bird frames are black, I want
the living room picture to show through. Yes, I realize I can do this
with a genlock, and I do own a genlock, but I want to be able to do
manual compositing also. It's ok if I have to composite one frame at
a time; I assumed I'd have to do that anyway. But being able to
composite a series of frames would be even better.
I've looked around and I haven't found a PC package that will perform
this. Help, please!
If you can get the live animation and the computer-generated animation
into AutoDesk Animator .FLI or .FLC format, AutoDesk Animator will do
this for you. It can take one animation, make a certain color
"clear", and overlay it over another animation. I do not have a way
right now to convert .AVI or .MPG files to animator files. Animator
will also import a series of .GIF files to create an animation, so if
your video capture stuff can create this is might work.
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2 simple reasons:
(1) Batting Williams ahead of Bonds will create a Left(Clark),
Right(Williams), Left(Bonds) situation in the middle of the
batting order. This makes it tougher for opposing manager
to change pitchers.
(2) Having Bonds batting behind Williams means that Matt will get
more good pitches to hit. This is important since he struggles
so much with breaking balls. Opposing pitchers don't want to
walk Williams to get to Bonds.
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The Jerusalem Post is only a small part of the Israeli media ( One
that caters to outsiders for the most part, anyways).
If you never read Ha'aretz, Maariv, or other Hebrew langauge papers
, or at least seen some of their articles translated, you are not
really getting the Israeli media.
Inlcuding some of the left-leaning ones?
A -6 to a -10? Is that why stations such as PBS have run shows which
do not depict the Israeli standpoint at all?
IS that why the Intifada got more coverage in 1987 and 1988 than did
Saddamn gassing Kurds by the thousands?
I am from Montreal. I read the Suburban. Did they ever advocate the
Kahane stupidity of expelling the Arabs? Are they racist?
The Suburban has some columnists that explain the Israeli standpoint.
They are nothing like Kahane. IN any case, the Suburban is a paper
with a minor local distribution and no influence.
So what source is the closest thing to a zero?
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:> :
:> : Basically, the Mac Pluses are constantly rebooting themselves, as if the
:> : reboot button were being pushed. Sometimes the Mac is able to fully boot
:
well this threads been going long enough... I'll add a diferent twist.
I found that the constant rebooting was due to overheating. We
had added 4Mb ram, and were operating in a non AC environment.
Adding an external cooling fan fixed it right up. ( over a
year ago )
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If, if, if.... Anyway, the question was if the gun was identifiable, which
it is.
-Tim
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I would like to know if their is any medical consensus
(or consensus within this group) regarding the ethics
of the following:
1: Prescription of placebo medications when the patient
did not specifically request any sort of treatment.
2: Selling a placebo medication for a profit.
3: Prescribing homeopathic remedies without advising
a patient of their "controversial nature".
4: Representing homeopathic remedies as "over the counter"
medications.
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Sorry about the delay in responding, due to conference paper deadline panic.
[Alarming amounts of agreement deleted :-)]
That ("complicated") isn't in fact where P(H) > P(HG) comes from; it's more
the other way around. It's from
P(H) = P(HG) + P(HG') where G' is the complement of G
and by axiom, P(anything) >= 0, so P(HG') >= 0, so P(H) >= P(HG).
In a sense, HG is necessarily more "complicated" than H for any H and G,
so I may be splitting hairs, but what I'm trying to say is that irrespective
of subjective impressions of how complicated something is, P(H) >= P(HG)
holds, with equality if and only if P(HG') = 0.
Well, "P(x | A) = P(x | B)" means that x is as likely to be observed if A is
operative as it is if B is operative. This implies that observing x does not
provide any useful information which might allow us to discriminate between
the respective possibilities that A and B are operative; the difference
reduces to the difference between the (unknown and unhelpful) prior
probabilities P(A) and P(B):
P(x | A) = P(x | B) ==>
P(A | x) = k P(A), and P(B | x) = k P(B)
where k = P(x | A) / P(x) = P(x | B) / P(x).
So A and B are "equally consistent with the data" in that observing x
doesn't give any pointers as to which of A or B is operative.
In the particular case where A = H and B = HG, however, we know that their
prior probabilities are ordered by P(H) >= P(HG), although we don't know
the actual values, and it's this which allows us to deploy the Razor to
throw out any such HG.
That's certainly true, but the particular point here was whether or
not a `divine component' actually underlies the prevalence of religion
in addition to the memetic transmission component, which even the religious
implicitly acknowledge to be operative when they talk of `spreading the word'.
Now it seems to me, as I've said, that the observed variance in religious
belief is well accounted for by the memetic transmission model, but rather
*less* well if one proposes a `divine component' in addition, since I would
expect the latter to conspire *against* wide variance and even mutual
exclusion among beliefs. Thus my *personal* feeling is that P(x | HG) isn't
even equal to P(x | H) in this case, but is smaller (H is memetic transmission,
G is `divine component', x is the variance among beliefs). But I happily
acknowledge that this is a subjective impression.
Not that I'm a statistician as such either, but:
The idea is that both theism and atheism are compatible with all of
the (read `my') observations to date. However, theism (of the type with
which I am concerned) *also* suggests that, for instance, prayer may be
answered, people may be miraculously healed (both are in principle amenable
to statistical verification) and that god/s may generally intervene in
measurable ways.
This means that these regions of the space of possible observations,
which I loosely termed "appearances of god/s", have some nonzero
probability under the theistic hypothesis and zero under the atheistic.
Since there is only so much probability available for each hypothesis to
scatter around over the observation space, the probability which theism
expends on making "appearances of god/s" possible must come from somewhere
else (i.e. other possible observations).
All else being equal, this means that an observation which *isn't* an
"appearance of god/s" must have a slightly higher probability under
atheism than under theism. The Bayesian stuff implies that such
observations must cause my running estimate for the probability of
the atheistic hypothesis to increase, with a corresponding decrease
in my running estimate for the probability of the theistic hypothesis.
Sorry if that's still a bit jargonesque, but it's rather difficult to
put it any other way, since it does depend intimately on the properties
of conditional probability densities, and particularly that the total
area under them is always unity.
An analogy may (or may not :-) be helpful. Say that hypothesis A is "the
coin is fair", and that B is "the coin is unfair (two-headed)". (I've
used A and B to avoid confusion with H[heads] and T[tails].)
Then
P(H | A) = 0.5 } total 1
P(T | A) = 0.5 }
P(H | B) = 1 } total 1
P(T | B) = 0 }
The observations are a string of heads, with no tails. This is compatible
with both a fair coin (A) and a two-headed coin (B). However, the probability
expended by A on making possible the appearance of tails (even though they
don't actually appear) must come from somewhere else, since the total must
be unity, and it comes in this case from the probability of the appearance
of heads.
Say our running estimates at time n-1 are e[n-1](A) and e[n-1](B). The
observation x[n] at time n is another head, x[n] = H. The estimates are
modified according to
P(H | A)
e[n](A) = e[n-1](A) * -------- = e[n-1](A) * m
P(H)
and
P(H | B)
e[n](B) = e[n-1](B) * -------- = e[n-1](B) * 2m
P(H)
Now we don't know P(H), the *actual* prior probability of a head, but
the multiplier for e(A) is half that for e(B). This is true every time
the coin is tossed and a head is observed.
Thus whatever the initial values of the estimates, after n heads, we have
n
e[n](A) = m e[0](A)
and
n
e[n](B) = (2m) e[0](B),
and since e[k](A) + e[k](B) = 1 at any time k, you can show that 0.5 < m < 1
and thus 1 < 2m < 2. Hence the estimate for the fair-coin hypothesis A must
decrease at each trial and that for the two-headed coin hypothesis B must
increase, even though both hypotheses are compatible with a string of heads.
The loose analogy is between "unfair coin" and atheism, and between "fair
coin" and theism, with observations consistent with both. A tail, which
would falsify "unfair coin", is analogous to an "appearance of god/s",
which would falsify atheism. I am *not* claiming that the analogy extends
to the numerical values of the various probabilities, just that the principle
is the same.
Quite so, but this type of theism is what I might call "the G in the HG",
in terms of our Ockham's Razor discussion, and I'd bin it on those grounds.
The hypotheses don't have to be falsifiable, and indeed in my `model',
the theism isn't falsifiable.
You don't have to. We don't need, in the above analogy, to know *any*
prior probabilities to deduce that the updating multiplier for the
fair-coin hypothesis is less than unity, and that the corresponding
multiplier for the two-headed coin hypothesis is greater than unity.
You don't need to know the initial values of the running estimates
either. It's clear that after a large number of observations, P(fair-coin)
approaches zero and P(two-headed-coin) approaches unity.
All you need to know is whether P(x | Ha) is larger than P(x | Ht) for
observed x, and this follows from the assumptions that there are certain
events rendered *possible* (not necessary) under Ht which are not possible
under Ha, and all else is equal.
Any observations you like; it really doesn't matter, nor affect the
reasoning, provided that there are some possible observations which
would count as "appearances of god/s". Examples of this might be
a demonstration of the efficacy of prayer, or of the veracity of
revelation.
OK, we'll downgrade "*does* interact" to "*may* interact", which would
actually be better since "does interact" implies a falsifiability which
we both agree is misplaced.
I'll explain, but bear in mind that this isn't central; all I require of
a theism is that it *not* make the prediction "Appearances of god/s will
never happen", as does atheism. (Before somebody points out that quantum
mechanics doesn't make this prediction either, the difference is that
QM and atheism do not form a partition.)
Predictions include such statements as "Prayer is efficacious" (implying
"If you do the stats, you will find that Prayer is efficacious"), or "Prayer
is *not* efficacious", or "Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not
pass, till all these things be fulfilled." I don't think we have any problems
of misunderstanding here.
That's fine; I don't claim that theism is false, merely that the [finite
number of] observations available to me so far suggest that it is, and
that as I continue to observe, the suggestion looks better and better.
I think you are; an "appearance of god/s" is sufficient to falsify
atheism, whereas in general the corresponding theism is unfalsifiable.
No: by way of a counterexample, let X = "the coin is fair", or more
accurately (so that not(X) makes sense) "the two sides of the coin are
different". This is unfalsifiable by tossing the coin; even a string of
heads is consistent with a fair coin, and you have to go to an infinite
number of tosses to falsify X in the limit. Its converse is falsifiable,
and is falsified when at least one head and at least one tail have appeared.
Oops. Sorry. Mea culpa.
We agree here.
"The Rapture will not happen on October 28 1992." Said Rapture would have
falsified atheism to my satisfaction had it happened, although its failure
to happen does not, of course, falsify any theisms other than those which
specifically predicted it.
"No phenomenon which requires the existence of one or more gods for its
explanation will ever be observed." That about sums the whole thing up.
Cheers
Simon
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: Ok, what's more important to gay Christians? Sex, or Christianity?
: Christianity I would hope. Would they be willing to forgo sex
: completely, in order to avoid being a stumbling block to others,
: to avoid the chance that their interpretation might be wrong,
: etc? If not, why not? Heterosexuals abstain all the time.
: (It would be nice if protestant churches had celibate orders
: to show the world that sex is not the important thing in life)
The difference is that straight members are given the choice of
abstaining or not, and celibacy is recognized as a gift, given only
to some. Gays are told that, as a condition of acceptance, they
_must_ be celibate. I don't believe that God gives me a forced choice
between having a relationship with God and expressing my heterosexuality
(within the context of a faithful relationship). Nor do I believe
that God gives that forced choice to gays. Sex or Christianity is a
false dichotomy.
: To tell the truth, gay churches remind me a lot of Henry the VIII
: starting the Church of England in order to get a divorce (or is
: this a myth). Note that I am not denying that gay Christians are
: Christian.
For my part, gay churches remind me of blacks starting their own churches
either because they were not allowed at all in the white churches, or, at
best, only with special restrictions that did not apply to white members.
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any idea on prices??
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How does the 16 bit color of HDTV work ? It can not be 5 bit Red Green and
Blue like on the Macintosh. This gives only 64 gray levels.
Apple also has developed a point-point network that is around 200MB (not
sure if it is bits or bytes) per sec.
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The suggestion that they Davidians committed suicide is
completely without evidence. Except for the editorials...
Please re-word. "propensity for allegedly dousing themselves".
Oh, and the survivors claim the the FBI started the burning
by accidentally igniting kerosene lanterns (remember that they'd
already cut the power), and the propane tanks. This sounds
a lot more likely than committing suicide by setting the place
afire.
--D
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No. The blue LEDs sold down the street are in milky-white plastic.
And, fyi, putting a filter on a "typical visible light LED" (presumably meaning
a non-blue one) won't produce blue light. A filter can only block light, it
can't generate wavelengths that aren't there to start with.
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First, a longer game in no way suggests "more baseball to watch," unless
you include watching the grass grow as baseball. The lengthier games
are so because of batters stepping out of the box, pitchers taking
longer between pitches and excessive trips to the mound by managers
and pitching coaches.
And while it's true that the gaps between plays can be interesting, this
is only true when they don't become extra-long. Quickly-pitched games
can grab and hold your attention much better.
Bring back the two-hour baseball game! (And the three and a half hour
golf game with it!)
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[a lot of stuff deleted -- i'm focusing on just one point]
i'm a little confused about the difference between this "weak atheism",
as you put it, and agnosticism. is agnosticism not believing or
necessarily disbelieving in anything, or what is it? i used to be
agnostic (by this definition) -- but if weak atheism includes not
necessarily believing in God, then i guess i was one of those. ???
actually what i have a hard time understanding is people who do not
ever decide what they believe. i am constantly in a state of
self-examination, as it would appear many others are as well (including the
atheists, of course -- i'd assume that's why they're here!). i guess
some people don't really consider it important to think about the
answers to "life, the universe and everything" -- any comment? just
wondering....
tough call, as these things seem to be based on faith -- wish i could
help you, but i already tried once with someone who was a
self-professed agnostic-thinking-of-becoming-a -christian, and it
didn't work too well! especially tough as i'm still mulling over
whether or not i believe in miracles (looks like another email to my
chaplain is coming up....). all i can do is wish you the best of
luck, and please do post what you find.
hmm, how so? i guess i really don't understand. there are times, of
course, when i say to myself "of course i have absolutely no way of
knowing that what i believe in is true except the satisfaction and
sense of peace i get from it -- which of course could just be
psychological". somehow i live with this anyway -- is this what you
mean?
the only "proof" i have is that i believe God spoke to me once --
which could of course be my own imagination. the odd thing is,
though, that if you don't at some point start believing in something,
after a while it all gets sort of ridiculous. maybe it's just a
question of where you draw the line.
i'll only add one question -- have you read pascal? what did you
think of him if you did?
also you may (or may not) be interested by cslewis/ _surprised by
joy_. i'd be interested in knowing what you think of him, no sarcasm
at all intended. (i just say this because one can never know how
one's written words will be interpreted. i am not interested in
converting you, since i don't seem to have whatever it would take --
proof -- to do so. i'm just interested in learning.)
i like this.
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Don't feed it so much.
Seriously.
Sort of like that scene in "10", in the minister's study, when the
secretary lets one fly, and the startled dog runs from the room.
The minister explains, "Every time Mrs. Soandso breaks wind, we beat the dog."
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It seems to me that the original question was for advice on his problem
not a history lesson - I think that if this question comes up from time
to time then people should get a civil answer
Could ANYONE please explain WHAT happens with a battery and is there any
cure to get it back into life
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Pick up a copy of PC Magazine or Byte, and look in the classifieds and
small-print ads in the back. There are a handful of shops that specialize
in BIOS upgrades.
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My 486DX2-50 has 8MB of 70ns RAM and a Trident SVGA card. Sometimes I feel it
runs very slowly, especially when running Windows.
I'm planning to buy an ATI Graphic Ultra + next semester. Is that all I need
to get the problem solved? Is 70ns RAM chips too slow for my machine? Do faster
RAM chips make a big difference?
I use CAD software on my computer as well. Do those up-grades good enough to
speed it up a lot? Any one experienced the difference between ISA bus and VL bus(both with a graphic accelerator)?
(A SCSI controller may not be appropriate, since I may have to replace my hard
disks as well. However, sometimes I do have huge files on my computer. Does
it really worth to use a SCSI interface? I can't spend too much on it)
t he )
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Dennis
dpang@uafhp.uark.edu
p.s. Man! I hate the stupid text editor. Is there any way I can type my article
in a DOS word-processor and load the file into usenet?
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Hello, I am writing a program which forks of a number of child processes
and each of the children printing things on the screen (quite messy in
one window)...
The "xterm -Sxxd" option seems to be the solution to opening up
slave windows only to display output and I use the following code to
open up a pty (taken from Stevens)...and manage to open up an x-term
successfully....
The problem however is how do I write into this x-term ? Please help!
static char pty_name[12];
int pty_master( void );
int pty_master( void )
{
int i,fd;
char* ptr;
struct stat statbuff;
static char ptychar[] = "pqrs";
static char hexdigit[] = "0123456789abcdef";
for( ptr = ptychar; *ptr!=0; ptr++ ) {
strcpy( pty_name, "/dev/ttyXY" );
pty_name[8] = *ptr;
pty_name[9] = '0';
if( stat( pty_name, &statbuff) < 0 )
break;
for( i=0; i < 16; i++ ) {
pty_name[9] = hexdigit[i];
if( (fd = open( pty_name, O_RDWR )) >= 0 )
return( fd );
}
}
return(-1);
}
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Hans> As somebody replied on whether the space shuttle is connected to
Hans> Usenet: "No. Of course the main flow of information would be up,
Hans> unless Henry Spencer would be aboard, in which case the main
Hans> flow of information would be down."
Gene Miya says that Henry will never go aloft in the Shuttle; the
payload bay isn't big enough for his chocolate chip cookies.
When Henry was here at Dryden, he was looking pretty covetously at the
SR-71s and the F-104s, even though they don't have much cookie space.
I guess he figured that he could manage for a short flight....
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HI!
I need a codabar font for win. TT or other.
Thanks!
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Being what? Oh, _weird_. OK, I'm warned!
Keep watch for what?
Oh, the several tens (or hundreds) of millions of dollars it would cost
to "record things" there. And I'd prefer a manned mission, anyway.
We've already got a pretty good platform to "scan" the solar
system, as well as SETI and looking at the galaxy without having
much of the solar system to worry about..
Care to guess where it is?
Shag
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